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Windows 7: ASUS EEEPC 1005 startup repair loop-hardware issue?

Problem...
1 yr old (no physical damage) n450, 2gb ram, Win 7 netbook was stuck in startup repair loop. Would boot to safe mode, and safe mode w/ networking. Now after attempting an F9 factory system resore it gets to loading drivers, then fails, says it has to restart then fails again.

Things I've done...
System restore to several point-all successful, no change in problem
chkdsk- no problems
Windows memory diagnostic- no problems
Tried repairing with a full Win 7 disk in an ext DVD drive. Failed.
Windows

Previously, I could boot to safe mode, or safe mode with networking. When I booted to windows normally, it would go into a startup repair loop. I tried a few things to fix that including repairing the registry hives (backed up first) but to no avail. Then I tried to do a clean install/ factory restore using the f9 option. Worked until it gets to the point of setting up hardware, then fails, and has to restart, in an endless loop.

Previously, I could boot to safe mode, or safe mode with networking. When I booted to windows normally, it would go into a startup repair loop. I tried a few things to fix that including repairing the registry hives (backed up first) but to no avail. Then I tried to do a clean install/ factory restore using the f9 option. Worked until it gets to the point of setting up hardware, then fails, and has to restart, in an endless loop.

Also, did you create recovery discs before Windows crashed? It's possible your recovery partition is corrupted. If you do not have discs, you will have to order them from ASUS.

These netbooks don't have an optical drive, with these machines you must rebuild them from a restore partition or with an external USB interfaced CD/DVD drive, or from a USB memory stick (in fact you can build a complete W7 installer onto a USB stick with a little patience).

It sounds like the thing may have become unbootable. However if you have kept the restore partition data you should be able to get at it using a bootable USB stick of some sort.

IMHO, and owning one of the Asus EEE variants, you must always keep an external bootable drive image on a USB device.

It'd be worth trying to check that the RAM is seated properly, as there's a slim possibility that could provoke a boot loop (it's under the HDD cover on the base).

Why would the recovery partition be bad? It started crashing before I touched the windows install. It's NOT the hard drive(tests of both the file system and hd health confirm), and it's NOT the RAM(switched out for original RAM confirm).

I had an old laptop with hardware issues once, would not allow windows to load it's drivers, reformatting crashed it at the driver installs. This sounds similar. I need a way(software?) to test the hardware components- or eliminate them one by one, which can't be done by unplugging parts like you could on a desktop.

PS I have an external DVD unit, and a Win 7 disk, but it's not for this computer.

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